Obsoleet s01e02 -- Part 1/3

Segments:
Pocket Tone Dialers
CEDs
Portable Radio Station

"Pocket Tone Dialers" used a Portatouch2 tone dialer, a Radioshack tone dialer, and a Bell model 500 rotary telephone. The Radioshack tone dialer appears to be modified to relay sound to an audio jack. Also featured was an iPod Video, and a Sony cassette recorder. To relay sound so the camera could hear it, a recorder telephone pickup (Radioshack part 44-583) and a mini audio amplifier (Radioshack part 277-1008) were used.

"CEDs" showed five capacitance electronic discs, also known as Selectavision videodiscs. The discs can be opened with a small screwdriver.

"Portable Radio Station" used a 4-channel stereo microphone mixer (Radioshack part 32-2056), a Dynex Portable Wireless Fm Transmitter, an RCA audio cable, and iPod Video, an RCA male to 1/8 inch male cable, and two Panasonic radios.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• telephone
• obsolete
• technology
• retro
• tone dialer
• red box
• rotary phone
• ced
• selectavision
• capacitance electronic disc
• radio station
• fm transmitter
• radio

[kaosleeroy108]

can you still redbox???

[ObsoleetTV]

@kaosleeroy108 From what I understand, it is still possible. For the longest time there was a rumor there was a phone left that could do it in Alaska, but that is an exaggeration. Red boxing will no longer work for long distance calls, and it won't work for privately owned payphones, but you may be able to red box local calls on a telco owned payphone.

[wogfun]

very cool, this takes me back...

[ObsoleetTV]

@wogfun Thanks, I hope you enjoy the future episodes!

[commanderhix]

im trying to make a rotary dialing phone work wire-lessly, i want the base to plug into a wall normal like, but i want the receiver to be wire-lessly linked to the base in a way that you use the base to dial and hang up but the receiver does not have to be plugged in! is this possible? if so can you show how to make it please?

[ObsoleetTV]

@commanderhix The only thing I can think of would be to take apart components for something similar like a modern cordless phone, but then there is the problem of the weight of the handset on the phone which figures out when the phone is hung up or not, if that is ignored, the phone will be off the hook and you won't receive calls. You could also try wiring in circuitry from a pair of old 49mhz walkie talkies, but you'd have the same off-the-hook problem.

[thecooldude9999]

@ObsoleetTV theres a small GTE (frontier - they did a bad job of covering up the GTE/Verizon logos.) town a few miles away from me.you can red-box local and long distance very easy, on local you can go through the operator, long distance goes though the operator always. VERY EASY!

[santaflow07]

yea u can do this orrrr u can just go to the dollar store and buy a damm wireless phone XD

[Comptekhs]

I have an idea why that one tone dialer has a output jack I would say whoever had it must have had a tape recorder and recorded the tones for some reason onto a tape recorder. Maybe they needed more than 32 numbers stored.

[DigitalAbsence]

bitch ass nigg=er